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- From: stlucas@gdwest.gd.com (Joseph St. Lucas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Make directory longer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.174154.992@gdwest.gd.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 17:41:54 GMT
- Sender: stlucas@gdwest.gd.com (Joseph St. Lucas)
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: General Dynamics Corp.
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- Well, the reason I wanted to try to extend the 1541 directory is to find
- my options available for a program I wanted to play with. My 1581 has
- 296 files available, I think. ANyhow, I wanted to find a recipe program
- for the c64. I know there are programs out there, but the ones I've
- found do one of the following;
- 1.) store recipes in a humongous sequential file. Access would be slow
- and messy.
- 2.) store recipes using one or two files per recipe. The 2/file stores
- ingredients in one file, instructions in another.
- The reason they all existed is because no one in their right (or left)
- minds would ever type all these recipes in by hand, so it was easy to
- grow bored and quit after 10 entrys, therefore never taxing the programs
- to the limit.
- I'm rewriting an old database program (original in assembly, my version in
- basic) that wouldn't use all the 40 sectors on my 1581 because the program
- only used the 1541 setup. So, I figured with the enormous amount of recipe
- files people have already typed in and posted to rec.food.recipes, I could
- electronically suck them up and dump them into a program, because I don't
- have an ibm to get a cd-rom to get the $40 Julia Childs 1000 recipe disk.
- I thought I'd modify what I'm working on to read recipe files.
- So I'm looking at options to storing and accessing the recipes, including
- individual files, maybe glueing 5 or 10 per sequential file (saves disk
- directory entries). Since the recipes are random lengths, no one good
- format exists to easily do the program reads. Anyhow, I plan on making
- it flexible enough to use either 1541 or 1581, using multiple disks,
- but searching only on recipe title, not ingredients. I know ftp'able
- sites for ibm and mac programs exist for this purpose, but I haven't seen
- any for our commodores. If one exists, let me know and save me the time.
- (average recipe is 3 blocks long, so > 200 could fit on one 1541 disk)
- When (if) I get it done, I'll post it for interested minds. I also have
- a ton of bread-making recipes that need this also.
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- Joe St.Lucas stlucas@gdwest.gd.com Standard Disclaimers Apply
- General Dynamics Space Systems, San Diego
- My blood runs Husker red.
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